Contributors
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Jeane Breinig, PhD, is associate professor of English at the University of Alaska-Anchorage and visiting scholar at the University of Alaska Southeast and Sealaska Heritage Institute (Juneau AK).
Eric Gansworth (Onondaga) was born and raised on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation in western New York. He is associate professor of English and Lowery Writer-in-Residence at Canisius College in Buffalo and is the author of three novels—Indian Summers, Smoke Dancing, and Mending Skins—and a book of poems and paintings—Nickel Eclipse: Iroquois Moon. His work has also been widely anthologized and exhibited.
Kate Hennessy is a PhD students in anthropology at the University of British Columbia. She received her MA in anthropology of media from the University of London, SOAS. As assistance editor of the Visual Anthropology Review, she designed its first multimedia CD-ROM edition. Her current work with First Nations communities in northern British Columbia, Alberta, and the Yukon uses methods of participatory ethnography while facilitating collaborative community media projects as videographer, trainer, and multimedia producer. Her research is grounded in the history and trajectory of museum repatriation and connects this concept to issues of ethnographic roles of Native and non-Native Canadians.
Mere Kēpa is a full-time caregiver to her elderly father. She combines this responsibility and task with research, academic writing, and program management in the Institute of Research Excellence called Ngā Pae o te Märamtanga. The Institute of Research Excellence for Māori Development and Advancement is hosted by the University of Auckland, Aotearoa-New Zealand. As a contribution to her extended families, Mere works in tribal politics at both the governance and management levels. [End Page 261]
Linitä Manu'atu is a senior lecturer in education at the Auckland University of Education. Linitā teaches two papers in the School of Education's Master of Education program—Pasifika Education: Issues, Educational Research Methodologies and Educational Leadership. She teaches one paper in the National Diploma in Teaching (Early Childhood Education, Pasifika)—Fonua: Pasifika Perspectives. Linitā is the academic advisor to the Office of Pasifika Advancement at the Auckland University of Technology.
Teresa L. McCarty is the Alice Wiley Snell Professor of Education Policy Studies at Arizona State University and co-principal investigator on the Native Language Shift and Retention Project.
Patrick Moore is an assistant professor of anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of British Columbia. He has extensive experience with community-based language documentation and teaching programs with Athabaskan languages, including Slavey, Kaska, Tagish, and Beaver. He is the author, with Angela Wheelock, of Wolverine: Myths and Visions (University of Nebraska Press, 1990). He is currently conducting research on the history of literacy in Northern Athabaskan communities and the relation of literacy and oral traditions in these communities. He is also participating in projects to document the Beaver language and Beaver traditions of place together with German and American researchers.
John Hunt Peacock, professor of language, literature, and culture at the Maryland Institute College of Arts, Baltimore, has belonged to the Modern Language Association for twenty-eight years. He is an enrolled member of the Spirit Lake Dakota Nation.
Mary Eunice Romero (Cochiti) is assistant professor of curriculum and instruction at Arizona State University and co-principal investigator on the Native Language Shift and Retention Project.
Shelley Stigter is a member of the Peepeekisis Nation and currently working on a MA degree in English at the University of Lethbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta.
Anton Treuer is an associate professor of American Indian studies at Bemidji State University. He specializes in Great Lakes Indian history, Ojibwe history, and the Ojibwe language. He is the editor of the only bilingual Ojibwe language journal—the Oshkabewis Native Journal. He is the author of Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales and Oral Histories and Omaa Akiing.
David Treuer is an assistant professor of English at the University of Minnesota. He specializes in Native American literature, the twentieth-century novel, and [End Page 262] Ojibwe language translation. He is the author of two novels, Little and The Hiawatha. His third novel, The Translation of Dr. Apelles, and a book of essays entitled Native American Fiction: A User's Manual, are...
